Authors note before we continue with that chapter:

I thought that nothing much happened in the last chapter so I'm moving it along a bit. The next chapter there will be a lot of Draco and Hermione together. Also a special thanks to a certain person (you know who you are:P) for being so helpful and supportive even though you have a tendency to be critical. As always please take a minute to review it means a lot. Enjoy

In the cold, damp room Hermione shivered. How long had she been here? Days? Weeks? Months? She put her hand on her cheek and felt the scar that Malfoy had left her.

Since the day that he came down to the dungeons for the first time, she hadn't seen him. Bellatrix had come in once and sat down in front of her cross legged just watching her for an hour. She never even uttered a word, which was very unlike her. It had seemed like the whole atmosphere of the Manor had changed.

Hermione sensed that something had happened in the mayor, everyone was feeling weary and afraid. She heard the house elves whispering outside the door of the dungeon, Malfoy and Bellatrix screaming curses at one another…

Was it something to do with her? What could scare the death eaters, so much? Finally after sitting in the dungeons for what seemed like forever, Bellatrix and Voldemort entered and stood above, looking down on her. " Stand up," Voldemort commanded and Hermione tried to pull herself up, but crumpled on the floor, she felt too weak. Voldemort rolled his eyes in annoyance and pulled her up by the scruff. He started to speak but stopped himself as he noticed her scar. He traced the length of the scar with a bony finger and Hermione trembled, being so close to the dark lord made a session with Malfoy and his knife seem like a play date.

"Who gave you that scar? Blaise told me that Draco and he hadn't made a mark on you," Voldemort growled.

"It was Draco," Hermione said in a whisper, fearing her own voice "He came down here a while ago." The dark lord's face twisted into a horrible expression, anger, and Hermione wished she was far from here.

"Find that boy," He raged at Bellatrix.

Once the witch had gone that left Voldemort and Hermione alone, with nowhere to run or hide.

…..

Malfoy sat at the edge of the bed, looking at his mother's dead body. He hadn't cried yet, he couldn't accept the fact that she was gone. Bellatrix was the opposite, when she heard the news she howled in grief and raged and screamed at Malfoy for being so heartless, "You could at least try and shed a tear for her."

He stared at her at her a final time and his hand brushed against her as he stood and images flooded his mind, He was killing a group of muggles they begged him to spare them, he felt his mother's disgust. The next scene was him torturing information out of Potter's followers and again He felt his mother's horror , her shame that her own son would do something like that.

He pulled his hand away and remembered what he had once been told at Hogwarts "A relative can see what a deceased family member's final thoughts, if he has not shed a tear due to their death, before."

Is that what his mother thought of him, had she been ashamed of her own son? Draco sank to his knees and finally wept for his mother as Bellatrix swept into the room.

….

"No," Neville repeated for what seemed like the tenth time, " You do not understand, you cannot defeat the dark lord with your petty muggle weapons."

"I am not disagreeing with you, but if we get close enough to him we can weaken him with our weapons and you can do your magic, litrally," said a boy only a few years older than Neville.

"Look, there are these things called ho…" Luna began.

" We know all this about splitting his soul into seven parts, but people we have placed undercover have reported that all these hourcruxes, or whatever they are, have been destroyed,"

"He's still powerful, you can't beat him"

"Not without your help, every hour you second arguing, the more danger Hermione is in."

"They won't kill her," said Luna sounding convinced.

"That's not the problem; we're draining Voldemort's power through Hermione,"

"So?" asked Neville

"If she spends time alone with him he will feel his power going into her and figure it all out, then the plan will be over and Voldemort will take over both the muggle world as well as the magical world!"

I'll explain all this about 'power draining' in a later update. As mentioned above REVIEW PLEASE!

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